51Թ

Advertisement

Advertisement

Narragansett

[ nar-uh-gan-sit ]

noun

plural Narragansetts, (especially collectively) Narragansett.
  1. a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family formerly located in Rhode Island but now almost extinct.
  2. an Algonquian language, the language of the Narragansett Indians.
  3. a town in S Rhode Island: includes a resort Narragansett Pier.


Narragansett

/ ˌæəˈɡæԲɪ /

noun

  1. -sett-setts a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Rhode Island
  2. the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

A few decades later, in 1676, future Harvard president Increase Mather urged and then celebrated a genocide of the Narragansett people, declaring, in his chronicle of "The Warr with the Indians in New England":

From

In recent months, winter storms and high surf have battered the U.S., sending water pouring over seawalls from Seattle to Salem, Mass. Protective walls were breached in Narragansett, R.I.;

From

But after the January storms, a heavily damaged house that tilted into the ocean in Narragansett, Rhode Island, signaled to some that with the world’s changing climate the ocean is creeping ever closer to places people live.

From

Carbone, a citizen of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island, thought back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has lived for much of her life.

From

This is even more true regarding the Yarmouth Stone and the Narragansett Runestone, discovered in Nova Scotia and Rhode Island in 1812 and 1984, respectively.

From

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


NarragansetNarragansett Bay